Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frenzy's Snarl. Successive blasts jolted Chestertown for a full 50 minutes; then, for four hours, rockets sporadically whistled skyward and briefly flashed. Some townsfolk had seen a jet plane, or two, or three, flying over seconds before the first detonation. Others watched the grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns...
Cupid? Near the end of the morning session, the committee got into a snarl that was to tie it up for the rest of the day. Describing a telephone call he got last Nov. 7 from McCarthy, Stevens said: "Now in that conversation Senator McCarthy said that one of the few things he had trouble with Mr. Cohn about was Dave Schine. He said that 'Roy thinks that Dave ought to be a general and operate from a penthouse on the Waldorf-Astoria' or words to that effect. Senator McCarthy then said that he thought a few weekends...
Cohn's snarl and Schine's lurking smirk qualify them for Madame Tussaud's . . . Sad, sad days are these, when Ike, Dulles, Wilson et al. hide while two juvenile delinquents such as these ride...
...ferocity is also part of Mathieu's obvious desire to overpower the viewer and compel his attention. Two smaller pictures-a snarl of black on a red canvas and a few black splashes on a white canvas-show that when the shouter lowers his voice, he also lowers his standards; they are simply chic. But as a whole the exhibition proves that Mathieu is as powerful an abstract expressionist as Manhattan's own Willem de Kooning...
...Turkish subject in a village near the Greek-Albanian border, Aristoklis Spyrou was appointed in 1919 to the Metropolitan Church of Athens. In 1930 the Orthodox population of the New World, a diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen, Aristoklis Spytbu, now Athenagoras, was the answer. He became archbishop primate of North and South America, and eventually gave up the Greek citizenship he had acquired to become a U.S. citizen...